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GURLING TONGS. No. 356,030. PatentediJan. 11,1887.

GEORGE T. OULVER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT,

CURLlNG-TONG S.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,030, dated January1.1, 1887.

Application filed October 4, 1886. Serial No. 215,201. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. OULVER, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement inCurling-Tongs; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, a side view of a pair of tongs complete; Fig. 2, an edge viewof the same; Fig. 3, the same view as Fig. 2, but showing the outsideconvolutions of the one part in transverse section; Fig. 4, one partdetached, showing the inside convolutions; Fig. 5, the other partdetached, showing the outside convolutions; Figs. 6, 7, and 8,modifications in the joint.

This invention relates to an improvement in tongs such as are used byhairdressers for curling or crimping hair, and in which the jaws consistof two round spindles adapted to be heated, the object of the inventionbeing a cheap construction of tongs, and one in which the joint will notbe materially affected by heating.

quired. One piece of wire is coiled at the joint, so as to make threecomplete convolutions, as indicated in Fig. 4, the handle from one endof the coiled portion being turned inward and backward into a line atright angles to the axis of the convolutions to form the handle B, theother end turned inward and forward into substantially the same plane asthat of the handle, and as seen in Fig. 4. The second part is coiled atthejoint to form a single convolution, E, as seen in Fig. 5, the one endturned inward and backward to form the second handle, D, and the otherend turned inward and forward into the same plane as the handle to formthe second jaw, O, the internal diameter of the convolutioncorresponding to the exterior of the convolutions of the first part, andin forming this convolution it is made around the first part of thejoint, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, so that the convolution Esurrounds the convolutions of the first part, the convolution lying in aplane between the convolutions of the first part, as seen in Fig. 3, andsufficiently close to retain its position, but yet so as to permit thetwo to oscillate upon each other as upon a pintle. This method offorming the joint produces a joint of considerable diameter, so that theparts are retained in their proper relation to each other, ye't permitperfect freedom in the working of the joint, and, because the joint isof such extent, and may be so free, there is no liability of injury tothe joint from heating the tongs.

The handles may be bent into any desired shape to suit the requirementsof users.

Instead of forming the convolutions one upon another, they may be formedof the same diameter, as seen in Fig. 6, but coiled in oppositedirections, one or more full convolutions, the two parts shown detachedin Figs. 7 and 8. In this case the two parts are placed side by sidewith their coils in axial line, and then a pivot, F, introduced andriveted down upon collars on the outer ends of the convolutions of each,as seen in Fig. 6. part of the tongs, handle, joint portion, and jaw aremade complete from a single. piece of wire, and consequently a verycheap construction. The wireitself presenting a complete finishedsurface throughout, the labor necessary in finishing forged tongs isavoided, and the cost of manufacture reduced.

I claim 1. The herein-described ,curlingtongs, con sisting of a pairofjaws with a handle extending from each, each part made from a singlepiece of wire, each part coiled to form one or more convolutions, andthe said convolutions united to form the joint between the respectiveparts, substantially as described.

2. A pair of curling-tongs in which each jaw with its handle is madefrom a continuous piece of wire, one of the said parts coiledin severalconvolutions at the place of the joint, the other part coiled around theconvolutions of the first partto form the joint, and the jaws andhandles extending respectively from the joint, substantially asdescribed.

' GEORGE T. OULVER.

Witnesses:

J OHN E. EARLE, FRED G. EARLE.

In this case each

